R2013a enhancements to Phased Array System Toolbox and SimRF help
speed system modeling and simulation

NATICK, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 26, 2013 —
MathWorks
today announced strengthened support for wireless communications and
radar design with
MATLAB
and
Simulink.
Release 2013a (R2013a) enhancements to
Phased
Array System Toolbox and
SimRF
now allow wireless communications and radar system designers to speed up
modeling and simulation within the familiar MATLAB and Simulink
environments.

Phased Array System Toolbox helps users to model an end-to-end phased
array system or process acquired radar data by using new capabilities
for polarization, array perturbations, and broadband arrays. SimRF
includes a new circuit envelope solver to accelerate simulation and
model load time; it also expands its library of components for the
simulation of RF front ends at the system level. These enhancements help
radar and communications system designers to model increasingly complex
scenarios with greater accuracy and performance.

“We rely heavily on MATLAB to design and model phased array performance
in radar and communication markets,” said Robert Liechty, business
development manager at Cobham Defense Electronics. “Phased Array System
Toolbox has helped us rapidly measure and analyze antenna beam patterns
with beam steering to evaluate our design performance. We are pleased to
see major enhancements in Release 2013a such as the Sensor Array
Analyzer app and new statistical modeling capabilities that will allow
more of our engineers to work more efficiently with Phased Array System
Toolbox.”

“As wireless and radar communications systems become more complex,
designers need to be able to see how RF devices and signal processing
algorithms interact with each other to affect overall system behavior,”
said Ken Karnofsky, senior strategist for signal processing at
MathWorks. “These new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink eliminate the
time and effort required to maintain separate tools and legacy code
bases.”

The major update to Phased Array System Toolbox includes:

Monostatic and multistatic radar system modeling, including point
targets, free-space propagation, surface clutter, and barrage jammer
to help estimate maximum range, peak power, and SNR of a radar system.

Modeling of sensor arrays and subarrays with arbitrary geometries for
beam pattern analysis of linear, planar, and conformal sensor arrays.

Polarization and platform motion specification for arrays and targets.

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